How about a shoe-in?

[jaqeboy]

Got some old shoes? How about a shoe-in?

[jaqeboy]

The shoe heard around the world
By Mohamed Khodr
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Dec 17, 2008, 00:21

"This is a farewell kiss, you dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq." --Muntader al-Zaidi, Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush during Baghdad news conference, December 14, 2008.
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Shoes, shoes, all kind of shoes - a truckload of shoes on Judd Gregg's office doorstep!

[jaqeboy]

Throw Your Shoes!

Diary Entry by Mr M

I'm constantly asked, "But what can I do?", well, now we all have an answer.

What Muntader al-Zaidi did was something we all should be doing to every politician that isn't doing what's right. Enough is enough!

From now until New Years I'm taking my shoes off! And I'm asking that this show of support for Mr. al-Zaidi and at our disgust at all that our government is doing that we be spread far and wide, that every journalist, reporter, writer, shop keeper, bus driver, baker and candle-stick maker, everyone that is feed-up with war, economy, no accountability, do the same. Wear a pair around your neck when in line, walking around your office, at a restaurant, on a date. And I see no reason this should stop at New Years. But what a way to bring in the New Year if by than there were millions of people in a show of disgust at the killing and thievery that is going on would symbolically throw our shoes at those so doing such.

What would Bush do at his next press briefing if all the reporters had their shoes hanging from their shoulders? Perino might never come to the podium.
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[dalebert]

For those who haven't seen it yet...

If the Shoe Hit

[jaqeboy]

[jaqeboy]

Throw a shoe at Bush!

[Lloyd Danforth]

I got 4 hits!  I should become a reporter!

[Sam A. Robrin]

Oh, swell . . .  One of the most common typos I have to correct is the phonetic misspelling of "shoo-in"--and now "shoe-in" is becoming legitimized! 
Never mind--it's just the carp of the cranky copy-editor.  I also boycott groceries with "12 ITEMS OR LESS" signs . . .

[KBCraig]

Never mind--it's just the carp of the cranky copy-editor.  I also boycott groceries with "12 ITEMS OR LESS" signs . . .

Fewer and fewer people understand that one these days. 

[Pat McCotter]

Never mind--it's just the carp of the cranky copy-editor.  I also boycott groceries with "12 ITEMS OR LESS" signs . . .

Fewer and fewer people understand that one these days. 

More or less.

[jaqeboy]

Welcome to the grammarian's forum 

Now, about those shoos!

[Sam A. Robrin]

Now, about those shoos!

What about us?

[jaqeboy]

The real game:

[jaqeboy]

Now, about those shoos!

What about us?

I believe that would be a Schmoo-In! 

[jaqeboy]

Muntadar al-Zaidi Did What We Journalists Should Have Done Long Ago
Mon, 12/15/2008 - 15:34 — dlindorff

When Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi heaved his two shoes at the head of President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, he did something that the White House press corps should have done years ago.

Al-Zaidi listened to Bush blather that the half-decade of war he had initiated with the illegal invasion of Iraq had been "necessary for US security, Iraqi stability (sic) and world peace" and something just snapped. The television correspondent, who had been kidnapped and held for a while last year by Shiite militants, pulled off a shoe and threw it at Bush—a serious insult in Iraqi culture—and shouted "This is a farewell kiss, you dog!" When the first shoe missed its target, he grabbed a second shoe and heaved it too, causing the president to duck a second time as al-Zaidi shouted, "This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq!"

I'll admit, listening to Bush lie his way through eight years of press conferences, while pre-selected reporters played along and pretended to get his attention so they could ask questions which had been submitted and vetted in advance, I have felt like throwing my shoes at the television set.

Al-Zaidi, who paid for his courageous act of protest by being brutally beaten by security guards, is a hero of the profession. He stopped taking the president's BS and called him what he is: a murderer and a criminal, with the blood of perhaps upwards of a million Iraqis on his hands. Al-Zaidi used what was supposed to be a staged photo-op for the president as an opportunity to speak up for those whose lives have been ruined by this president—the ones our suck-up journalists routinely ignore.
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